Mujer Sana - Comunidad Sana
Healthy Women - Healthy Communities

Mujer Sana - Comunidad Sana/Healthy Women - Healthy Communities is a 2.5-year demonstration research project.
The goal of the project is to implement and evaluate a comprehensive model of lay health promotion, participatory action research, and community capacity-building to improve cancer screening practices among Spanish-speaking women in Ottawa. The model is based on similar successful programs used in disadvantaged populations in Latin America, the United States, and many other countries in the world. The project was designed to test the model in a Canadian urban setting, and to explore its transferability to other marginalized ethno-racial immigrant communities. We also wanted to find out if the model could be integrated within current health promotion policy and practice.